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Re:Japan has declared today that the southern Kurils is thei... by gambiting on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @08:10AM (#30599462)
>>and to my knowledge none of the neighbors wants to join that territory

Well, let me expand that knowledge then - Poland would love to integrate that bit of land, because currently the fact that the only entrance to the Polish port of Elbląg is controlled by Russia is a major ballache that stops the development of the region, enough so that the Polish government has agreed to spend billions of Polish zlotys to dig a canal that will allow ships to skip going through Russian controlled waters.

https://www.google.pl/maps/@54.4002206,19.5500717,10.75z

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Re:Japan has declared today that the southern Kurils is thei... by exitb on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @08:32AM (#30599653)
Poland has not expressed any wish to integrate that, nor any other territories. I can imagine it getting separated from Russia and even joining the EU at some point, but only as a sovereign entity.
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